Pub closures, you see, had nothing to do with the ban whatsoever. In fact, they haven’t even been closing at all according to ASH.

However, the pro-tobacco lobby’s claims that the smoking ban has led to pub closures are unfounded. In 2007, the year England went smokefree, the number of licensed premises for “on sales” of alcohol actually increased by 5% and there has been a net increase in the number of people reporting going to pubs since the smokefree law came into effect.

That’s correct. The media; the government who are holding crisis debates on the demise of pubs; the public who see them boarded up on a daily basis; and the BBPA who track the numbers, are all deluded. It’s just a dream.

So back to today’s big news.

Here is what that dramatic reduction in “children admitted with severe asthma” looks like (from the report, not the press release Brimelow churned out). For your safety, please hold onto a fixture or fitting in case this knocks you sideways.

A bit disappointed? Hey, don’t blame me, I just pass on this stuff.

You see, contrary to Brimelow’s artless reportage, there wasn’t a drop at all. There was merely a slight deviation from what some highly-partial professional tobacco controller had predicted (and even that doesn’t show a significant reduction). And who was this tobacco controller?

Dr Glantz supervised the statistical analysis, interpreted the findings, reviewed and revised the manuscript, and approved the final manuscript as submitted.

Yes, it’s the smoke-obsessed aircraft mechanic Stanton Glantz, arguably the foremost anti-smoking crank on the planet and a man for whom no data is too challenging to torture; no lie too big to tell; and who has never been known to produce anything in the last four decades which could remotely be described as objective science.

I heard this 12% claim on the radio today and didn’t regard it as remotely credible. Does anybody believe what government statisticians say any more? On a daily basis I read that the government ‘under-estimated’ the number of Poles who would immigrate here (they told us 13,000 when in fact it was almost a million). Under-estimate? I can just picture Blair and Campbell saying “What shall we tell the suckers – let’s just pluck a figure out of the air – they’ll believe whatever we tell them”. Sadly they were right. And the people still fall for it.

Don’t believe them, i have friends in the right places, they are lying, at one
point there was 3 in every 10 under mental health care at anyone time, then
they bring in laws to make it impossible for them to get jobs, with them and
a 11 million people with police records of working age, the only hope of
keeping the country working is immigrants, the rest are unemployable,
due to blunket legislation, just look at the lawyers figures in relation to tribunals
in respect of the politically detained, they are only a tiny percentage of
actual patients as such. More accurate, see the buget for 2009 to 2012.

The Poles are not the problem at all, re immigration. They have, substantively, disappeared as a “population” which is identifiable at all. This is what we want immigrants to actually do. And they did it in about five years. A million: just think of it. Gone, and earning livings, buying houses, paying taxes (not that that’s good in itself) and so on.

There are seven on our own road here, within 100 yards, and you’d never know if Yoo Wazz Frum Summat-else (like London), even knowing them as neighbours as one does (the Chimpanzee Type-Writers in the Nissen hut love them, for they ask (and advise) about computer fixes, and lend and borrow 6-metre VGA cables.)

I’d forgotten about those ones: probably because they had disappeared even earlier. We knew a few of the Monte-Cassino vets in london, many years ago. You didn’t know unless you peeked at their bookshelves and mantlepiece photos.

Yes you’re right the poles have gone david, I now I live in an area of high
polish immigration, point of fact, very few are buying houses, in the main
in this area, they work in part time jobs £70.00 per week, claim TC rent,
and council tax to the tune of £300,00 per week, bulk earn about £100.00
and are manual or very semi skilled.